QUESTION
Can I sue a contractor that did not honor what he signed to do
Asked on Nov 12th, 2018 on Breach of Contract - Florida
More details to this question:
We hired a contractor. In the contract it states that he will supply paint among other materials and when there was $4,000 left owed to him he turned the work over to one of his workers. Which the worker agreed to finish for the $4,000 but the contractor did not tell him of all the unfinished work. so we have had to buy more materials that were supposed to be supplied by the contractor per the contract and gone over our contracted dollar amount.
1 ANSWER
The answer to "can I sue" is always yes, but the question is whether you can win. Here, from what you've written it depends on what was agreed when the worker took over - was the original contract modified at that time to not require the contractor to supply paint and other materials? Assuming that there is no written document embodying the new deal, a judge or jury deciding this question may have to decide who to believe, you or the contractor, although your case would be helped if the original written contract provided, as many do, that it could not be modified orally (such clauses are not absolute, but would give you a leg up).
Answered on Nov 12th, 2018 at 2:39 PM